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Accounting information
Week 5
Problem 4
a) . Two examples of companies pressures are financial and management characteristics.
Financial pressure is a pressure that a companys performance needs to be better than
expectation from projection. If a company p

TOYOTA
First information I found in annual report was the companys vision. They discusses what is their
global vision as well as how they are gong to achieve these goals. These information is helpful
to the users of annual reports because it tells you whe

Week 10
P9
a There is no communication between credit manager and accountant. When credit manager
is deciding whether to approve or not, accountant should give previous experience with the
customers.
There is no communication after shipping the product. S

Discussion Question 2
This case is about a cable provider, Adelphia Corporation and its CEO, John Rigas. John Rigas
established this firm when he was young and he grew the business to one of the top five cable
providers in U.S. What he did was that he too

Accounting information
Week 8 Case Study
a
Name of the problem
Unauthorized access
Describe the problem
People who has no authorization
can possibly see paper tax
return. Because paper return is
mailed, anybody can open it and
steal confidential informati

Answer the following questions: (1) When asked to provide a specific number of controls, tests,
etc., you should start from the most relevant ones. Assessment of your answers is based on the
relevance to the issue of interest. (2) Avoid unnecessary elabor

Accounting Information
How Adelphia Communications Company Failed
History
John Rigas started a cable television company; Adelphia Communication Corporation in
1952 with his brother Gus Rigas.in Pennsylvania. The companys name Adelphia came from
brothers i

Term Paper Draft
How did Adelphia fail ?
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History of the corporation
How was the fraud detected
How did Rigas family commit the fraud
How did they do it without being detected
What internal control should have been in place to prevent the

Week 1 Discussion Conclusion
After reading other posts, I realized that fraud triangle applies to all the cases.Opportunity,
rationalization and financial pressure are three key elements to commit a fraud. For example in
a major fraud case, top executive

It seems that I was not the only one who had difficulty in creating and reading flowcharts and
diagrams. Although these are great tools to help understanding the system of the business, it
takes some time to get used to it. Just like everything else, to u

Week 2 Discussion
Sarbanes-Oxley Act was created in a response to major accounting scandals in order to assure
the same mistake never happens again. With the passing of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002,
companies are obligated to follow additional set of rules

Accounting information
Week 3 Discussion
Business process reengineering is the change in business process to improve the whole
business, for example, a change in management system. BPR was started in late 1990 by
Michael Hammers. The concept is still wide